Health Control

Roles and Responsibilities

Closely watch, monitor, proceed or set up implementation procedures to get rid of or prevent the outbreak of disease including any international threat against the public health according to the Communicable Disease Act B.E.2523, the International Health Regulations B.E.2548 and other related laws. Also it has to improve the main capacity of country’s accessing channels in various aspects such as communications, main capacity in normal situation and how to deal with emergency incident on public health that may spread to other countries.

Implementation

Monitor, screen and vaccinate passenger coming from communicable zone of Yellow Fever countries (Africa and South America) in order to prevent Thailand from the outbreak of disease. Such countries are

33 countries in Africa

1

Republic of Angola

18

Ghana

2

Benin

19

Equatorial Guinea

3

Burkina Faso

20

Mali

4

Burundi

21

Rwanda

5

Cameroon

22

Sao Tome and Principe

6

Congo

23

Senegal

7

Central African Republic

24

Sierra Leone

8

Ethiopia

25

Somalia

9

Chad

26

Sudan

10

Guinea-Bissau

27

South Sudan

11

Gambia

28

Togo

12

Guinea

29

Uganda

13

Gabon

30

Tanzania

14

Liberia

31

Democratic Republic of the Congo

15

Kenya

32

Niger

16

Mauritania

33

Nigeria

17

Cote d’Ivoire

13 countries in South America

1

Brazil

8

Paraguay

2

Bolivia

9

Columbia

3

Peru

10

Venezuela

4

Ecuador

11

Suriname

5

Guyana

12

Trinidad and Tobago

6

French Guiana

13

Argentina

7

Panama

Monitor and control hygiene of places and areas (food, vehicle, environment, insect/animal carriers) as well as get rid of those that may endanger to the health of people

Watch, control, prevent and follow the news and situations of communicable disease

Disseminate information and news about communicable disease to passenger and related people.